Record Details

NHER Number:18251
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of medieval settlement

Summary

This is the site of an early medieval settlement. Fieldwalking has recovered pottery dating from the early medieval to the post medieval period, and fragments of medieval quern.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 3865 9639
Map Sheet:TM39NE
Parish:HALES, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Early 1982. Fieldwalking by Hales Survey (field 58).
Sugar beet in rows.
103 medieval unglazed including several early medieval rims.
7 late medieval glazed.
2 post medieval glazed.
1 stoneware.
1 lava quern.
See notes and plan in file.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) July 1982.

(S1) records this as Site 58. The medieval settlement may have had its origins in the early medieval period.
See (S1) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 25 January 2006

Monument Types

  • SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • QUERN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 58. Hales.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Unpublished Document: Hales Survey. Hales Survey fieldwalking notes.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Monograph: Davison, A.. 1990. The Evolution of Settlement in Three Parishes in South-East Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 49.

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